Because out of all the people who read that comment, you were the only one that was able to extract MARKETSHARE out of:
Linux is not ready for the desktop. They are not even close.
Not now. Not ever.
Don't mod me down. Let time prove me wrong.
Even to me, while re-reading it quite a few times, it just seems like some moron who probably has never tried linux saying that it will never be ready for the desktop.. not now, not ever...
Your ability to read between the lines is mind numbing...
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USER, n.:
The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot."
-- Dave Barry, "Claw Your Way to the Top"
..as much money as Bill Gates does, I could pay a lot of people to say that I'm the best looking, smartest guy around!
But since I don't have that kind of money, I'll just have to keep those secrets to myself.;)
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"There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain." -- Baron Rothschild, ca. 1800
Basically, what I'm saying here is, quit whining. Make yourself a valuable person and you will find employment. And don't rest on your laurels, either: you have to constantly adapt and pick up new skills.
Wow.. this is some really good advice. If I were any of you, I'd listen to this guy, he really knows what he's talking about..
Now, would you hurry up and fix me my double tall latte??
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You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.
-- Bumper Sticker
Steve Jobs to the RIAA: "We asked 10,000 monkeys, and they don't seem to think that protecting diginal music is possible. However, they gave us this encyclopedia to give to you!"
Yes ladies and gentlement, Steve Jobs does know how to get the answers to the questions that matter the most.
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The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I proudly present to you thrillbert's Law:
This law states that new laws to govern electronics and transistors will become obsolete every few years and will be replaced by new and improved laws which again will become obsolete as we as humans become smarter and find newer and better ways of creating things.
That is all, you may return to your previously scheduled activity.
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The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice.
Actually, you might not be that far off. In many cases, a brain tumor can cause a distorted perception of the truth and/or paranoia. And given how Mr. McBride has acted these past few months, I would greatly encourage him to get a CT scan to ensure that he's not going to croak in the next few hours.
I know that it sounds a bit far fetched, but it might not be too far off the truth..
I wonder if it will be one of those technologies that I cannot use. I am legally blind in my left eye
I hate to point out the obvious, and I don't mean to be insensitive, however, if you are blind on one eye, then you are not able to see third dimensionally in the first place, so stating the obvious that you will not be able to use this is either an attempt at some sympathy or quite a lapse in logical thinking.
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Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares?
I don't think he want's to review his own book, that would mean too much reading. He's opting for the easier way out, which is to review the review.
So to continue the trend, I will review the review of the review:
I feel the author was self serving while complaining about the original review. Although this review may not have been a "New York Times" quality review, the substance of the book was aptly reviewed, making the review of the review quite useless.
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Tomorrow we review the review of the SCO code by SGI.
No, I'm sorry, I do not find your Cisco Router support anywhere on our systems. Have a good evening! <click>.
I'll show you tech support that sucks... jerks!
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Companies spend millions on advertising, but pay minimum wage to those who will be the first point of contact with the customer. Ain't economics great?
In other news, the pot today called the kettle black. Steming from a futile attempt by the pot to pass off as a kettle, and the kettle reaffirming it's own existance, the pot, for reasons yet unknown, called the kettle black in front of fellow kitchenware.
"It was just an unwarranted attack" said the Roast Pot. "We all know the truth here, and for the pot to be so stupid and call the kettle black, while itself is black, is just ridiculous.
The pot refused to answer any of our questions claiming temporary insanity due to undue financial stress. The kettle however smiled at our cameras and stated "now we realize who is living in the fantasy world!".
We will bring you more of this developing story as it becomes available. For Koo-Koo kitchen News, this is Tea Spooner.
Well, it's finally happened.. they have smoked so much crack that now they've really started hallucinating...
Right to use SCO IP in a Linux distribution
Promotional License Fee
with 1 CPU $699
with 2 CPUs $1,149
with 4 CPUs $2,499
with 8 CPUs $4,999
Additional single CPU $749
So this puts Lawrence Livermore National Labs at around $190,751 for a 256CPU system.. of which, they have a few.. heh..
<sarcasm> Let me run out and buy some of that SCO stock!!! </sarcasm>
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Stupidity is the great constant in this universe.
I think Mr Oppenheim could surpass his previous accomplishments by making Freenet available to the Open Source developer
Oppenheim is the Sr. Vice President for the RIAA's Business and Legal Afairs.. how do you figure he could surpass his previous accomplishments by doing this?
Karma Horing while on crack?
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If money can't buy happiness, I guess you'll just have to rent it.
PLEASE tell me this doesn't mean more Reality TV shows!!!
Slashdot TV, Real geeks unequiped to deal with the real world. From the makers of Survivor!
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The good die young -- because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.
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Are there some SCO news I'm missing somewhere? I can't believe I've refreshed this story 3 times and there isn't a single post... I really feel as if I'm missing out on some big news somewhere else...
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All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates. -Woody Allen
Sun Fire V480
Four 900-MHz UltraSparc III Cu processors,16 Gbytes RAM, Solaris 8: $46,995
IBM eServer pSeries 630 Model 6C4
2 x 2-way 1.2-GHz Power4+ processor, 8 Gbytes RAM, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8: $35,944
Dell PowerEdge 6650
Four 1.5-GHz Intel Xeon processors, 16 Gbytes RAM, Red Hat Linux 8 Professional: $24,421
Seeing the expression on people who claimed Linux was not ready for the enterprise: Priceless.
Some things money can buy. Piece of mind and a wad in your wallet can only be achieved by cheap hardware and an even cheaper operating system.
This message brought to you by Open Source. Live free!
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You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and liberty.
-- Henrik Ibsen
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Because out of all the people who read that comment, you were the only one that was able to extract MARKETSHARE out of:
Linux is not ready for the desktop. They are not even close.
Not now. Not ever.
Don't mod me down. Let time prove me wrong.
Even to me, while re-reading it quite a few times, it just seems like some moron who probably has never tried linux saying that it will never be ready for the desktop.. not now, not ever...
Your ability to read between the lines is mind numbing...
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USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot."
-- Dave Barry, "Claw Your Way to the Top"
I don't have time to read them now because I'm working
You're weird.. if I wasn't at work, I wouldn't even be here...
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. -- Will Durant
will ensure that the OSS side can't be simply defeated by burying them in paperwork and expensive legal maneuvers.
AKA IBM'ing the competition.
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"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup."
Now, that's a shocker...
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One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
See, this is the best part of free software, and free comments. I don't have to spend a million bucks to get someone to agree with me! :)
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"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."
-- J. Paul Getty
..as much money as Bill Gates does, I could pay a lot of people to say that I'm the best looking, smartest guy around!
;)
But since I don't have that kind of money, I'll just have to keep those secrets to myself.
---
"There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain." -- Baron Rothschild, ca. 1800
Basically, what I'm saying here is, quit whining. Make yourself a valuable person and you will find employment. And don't rest on your laurels, either: you have to constantly adapt and pick up new skills.
Wow.. this is some really good advice. If I were any of you, I'd listen to this guy, he really knows what he's talking about..
Now, would you hurry up and fix me my double tall latte??
---
You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.
-- Bumper Sticker
Steve Jobs to the RIAA: "We asked 10,000 monkeys, and they don't seem to think that protecting diginal music is possible. However, they gave us this encyclopedia to give to you!"
Yes ladies and gentlement, Steve Jobs does know how to get the answers to the questions that matter the most.
---
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
I was looking for ideas against SPAM
Take a look at Quadratic Yield Validation.
This is more or less re-inventing the Email server, not the client. But maybe re-inventing is too strong a word..
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You have junk mail.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I proudly present to you thrillbert's Law :
This law states that new laws to govern electronics and transistors will become obsolete every few years and will be replaced by new and improved laws which again will become obsolete as we as humans become smarter and find newer and better ways of creating things.
That is all, you may return to your previously scheduled activity.
---
The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice.
Actually, you might not be that far off. In many cases, a brain tumor can cause a distorted perception of the truth and/or paranoia. And given how Mr. McBride has acted these past few months, I would greatly encourage him to get a CT scan to ensure that he's not going to croak in the next few hours.
I know that it sounds a bit far fetched, but it might not be too far off the truth..
---
You will be surprised by a loud noise.
I wonder if it will be one of those technologies that I cannot use. I am legally blind in my left eye
I hate to point out the obvious, and I don't mean to be insensitive, however, if you are blind on one eye, then you are not able to see third dimensionally in the first place, so stating the obvious that you will not be able to use this is either an attempt at some sympathy or quite a lapse in logical thinking.
---
Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares?
I don't think he want's to review his own book, that would mean too much reading. He's opting for the easier way out, which is to review the review.
So to continue the trend, I will review the review of the review:
I feel the author was self serving while complaining about the original review. Although this review may not have been a "New York Times" quality review, the substance of the book was aptly reviewed, making the review of the review quite useless.
---
Tomorrow we review the review of the SCO code by SGI.
Is finding the right mouse button so I can right click and "Save Picture As..."
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Bell Labs Unix -- Reach out and grep someone.
... Hire CowboyNeal of course!!!
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The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
What? I'm sorry, what's your customer ID again?
No, I'm sorry, I do not find your Cisco Router support anywhere on our systems. Have a good evening! <click>.
I'll show you tech support that sucks... jerks!
---
Companies spend millions on advertising, but pay minimum wage to those who will be the first point of contact with the customer. Ain't economics great?
In other news, the pot today called the kettle black. Steming from a futile attempt by the pot to pass off as a kettle, and the kettle reaffirming it's own existance, the pot, for reasons yet unknown, called the kettle black in front of fellow kitchenware.
"It was just an unwarranted attack" said the Roast Pot. "We all know the truth here, and for the pot to be so stupid and call the kettle black, while itself is black, is just ridiculous.
The pot refused to answer any of our questions claiming temporary insanity due to undue financial stress. The kettle however smiled at our cameras and stated "now we realize who is living in the fantasy world!". We will bring you more of this developing story as it becomes available. For Koo-Koo kitchen News, this is Tea Spooner.
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A tautology is a thing which is tautological.
Well, it's finally happened.. they have smoked so much crack that now they've really started hallucinating...
Right to use SCO IP in a Linux distribution
Promotional License Fee
with 1 CPU $699
with 2 CPUs $1,149
with 4 CPUs $2,499
with 8 CPUs $4,999
Additional single CPU $749
So this puts Lawrence Livermore National Labs at around $190,751 for a 256CPU system.. of which, they have a few.. heh..
<sarcasm> Let me run out and buy some of that SCO stock!!! </sarcasm>
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Stupidity is the great constant in this universe.
But when can I see the results of the Wet /. T-Shirt contest??
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I think Mr Oppenheim could surpass his previous accomplishments by making Freenet available to the Open Source developer
Oppenheim is the Sr. Vice President for the RIAA's Business and Legal Afairs.. how do you figure he could surpass his previous accomplishments by doing this?
Karma Horing while on crack?
---
If money can't buy happiness, I guess you'll just have to rent it.
PLEASE tell me this doesn't mean more Reality TV shows!!!
Slashdot TV, Real geeks unequiped to deal with the real world. From the makers of Survivor!
---
The good die young -- because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.
Are there some SCO news I'm missing somewhere? I can't believe I've refreshed this story 3 times and there isn't a single post... I really feel as if I'm missing out on some big news somewhere else...
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All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates. -Woody Allen
Wouldn't early 80's Unix code be extremely primitive compared to Linux 2.2 and above?
You are correct! However, it's been murder trying to get some working code for MFM and RLL drives, so we had to look that far back!
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"Death is nature's way of saying `Howdy'".
Sun Fire V480
Four 900-MHz UltraSparc III Cu processors,16 Gbytes RAM, Solaris 8: $46,995
IBM eServer pSeries 630 Model 6C4
2 x 2-way 1.2-GHz Power4+ processor, 8 Gbytes RAM, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8: $35,944
Dell PowerEdge 6650
Four 1.5-GHz Intel Xeon processors, 16 Gbytes RAM, Red Hat Linux 8 Professional: $24,421
Seeing the expression on people who claimed Linux was not ready for the enterprise: Priceless.
Some things money can buy. Piece of mind and a wad in your wallet can only be achieved by cheap hardware and an even cheaper operating system.
This message brought to you by Open Source. Live free!
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You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and liberty.
-- Henrik Ibsen
Is the curriculum available to others so that they can implement the program elsewhere?